Decisions, decisions … or life after Hawai’i

[Tropic_Mjolnir]

I wasn’t sure where to put this thread, but as it’s a general question and related to SF I thought I’d throw it in there. That needless preamble offered, I begin!

About August of last year I started thinking about long-term career goals; not so much in promotion, more along the lines of, “Just what should I do with myself?” In addition to logging some skull time with the subject, I bounced the idea of some friends and co-workers. More often than not their answers led in two directions: selection or OCS. While I understand that going to OCS does not preclude going to selection, the reverse is less and less true as I’m currently 27 years old.

One of the reasons I enlisted in the Infantry was out of a perceived sense of need; my nation had been attacked and I wanted to take an active part in the fight. It is this same sense of need that leads me to ask for some help in answering this, purposefully vague and open ended question. What does Group need more, NCOs or Officers? So assuming a person could do either well (and understanding this is a big assumption, but give it some room to run for sake of argument), which is needed “more?”

Thank you in advance for any help you can give me regarding this. Feel free to post any and all opinions, thoughts, musings, flames, cajoles, hexes, off-handed remarks, pithy comments and other forms of textual elaboration via both post and PM form.

Mahalo nui loa,

M